This is yet another way that I had pieced together to install the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and CentOS 5.4 system. This time, the process is accomplished through the use of PuTTY and XMing....
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This is part of my series, useful Linux commands and tips. Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Like all applications that run under Linux, Nautilus has it's own command line options....
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This is part of my series, useful Linux commands and tips. Although there is a great GUI utility to simplify service administration, called Service Confiuration tool, in an environment that favors the command line equivalent, it would also be good to know those commands. These commands will require root level access....
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This is part of my series, useful Linux commands and tips. The ifconfig (short for interface configurator), a system administration utility to configure, control, and query TCP/IP network interface parameters, is located in the system's /sbin directory. /sbin is not usually included in the user's PATH environment variable. For this reason, when you attempt to execute ifconfig, bash can not find it....
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This will guide you through the steps to access a Linux server, specifically, a Red hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or CentOS 5.4 server, through the use of PuTTy and Xming. It is a relatively simple setup that will require only two freeware products and a quick verificatino of setting on the Linux server. With the use of these two tools and a little configuration, it is easy to do. It makes for a great compromise between command line and GUI. As I understand it, all applications in the Linux environment have a command-line alternative to their GUI. So you can run your Linux box through this combination of tools....
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A MySql database needed to be removed and upon deletion of that single database, the extremely large three gigabite ibdata1 (data) file remained. Here are the steps I took to reduce or shrink the file once the database was removed. Since there was no other use for this MySql installation, there remained the MySql system databases....
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There are many articles that I've come across that detail how to enable gzip compression within IIS 6 on a Windows Server 2003 with the Application Server option enabled nder the Configure My Server 2003 wizard. Gzip compression can compress the output of dynamic webpages (.aspx) and webservices (.asmx). It can reduce the filesize significantly....
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There was a situation where one of the primary domain controllers would not boot and we were forced to upgrade the other domain controller to the primary controller position. This is an AD domain operating on Windows 2003. All references to the failed server were removed from AD. The AD domain seemed to be functioning correctly, until an attempt was made to add another domain controller....
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